Probably cooked up in some back room

Eric Hovde has not even announced that he is running for U.S. Senate yet and already the dirty tricks are starting. At least, I assume this blog is a dirty trick cooked up in some back room. Whoever it is, they are advertising the blog on Google Ads, which is how I stumbled across it. (I should thank them for the money.)

Hovde moved back to Madison last summer. Lived in DC for the previous quarter century, give or take. Based on his philanthropic efforts, he certainly seems like a compassionate and worldly kind of guy. Not sure he’ll be able to get past the carpetbagger stuff.

At some point, the GOP probably has to get past looking for wealthy self-funders as its torchbearers. Doesn’t really mesh well with that whole faux-populist, anti-establishment fervor the party’s got going on these days.